List of Famous people born on May 13rd

Duke R. Lee was an American actor. He appeared in 99 films between 1913 and 1946. He was born in Virginia and died in Los Angeles, California.

Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele was a German chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him.

Kazumasa Hirai was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer from Yokosuka, Kanagawa. He graduated from Yokosuka Industrial High School and the law department of Chuo University. Hirai is well known for his SF-manga work. He is the creator of 8 Man and was well known as the story creator of the 1960s manga series "Genma Taisen" about a hero with psychokinetic powers and his battle against a space villain called Genma. Hirai wrote stories for the Wolf Guy comic series, and also published comics co-authored with cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori that were later adapted into an animated film in 1983.

Tom O'Rourke was born in Boston and became a boxing manager in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Frederik van der Blij was a Dutch mathematician. From 1955 until his retirement in 1988 he was professor at the University of Utrecht. His research focused on number theory, among other fields.

Mike Beres is a male badminton player from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the men's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games. He was born in Brantford, Ontario.

Mikhail Rasumny was a Soviet and American film actor.